Sentences with word «unreason»

Best quote: «We are now entering an Age of Unreason, when the future, in so many areas, is there to be shaped by us and for us — a time when the only prediction that will hold true is that no predictions will hold true; a time, therefore, for bold imaginings in private life as well as public, for thinking the unlikely and doing the unreasonable.»

Tis the season for unreason.

Draw back from our politics of unreason in which every engagement with the opposition is seen as a prelude to the apocalypse.

We believe that at the beginning of everything is the eternal Word, with Reason and not Unreason.»

Still, he says that he doesn't want to be part of a party (i.e., the Republican party) that upholds what he describes as unreason, but he also doesn't claim that such alleged scientific truth regarding ultimate questions of human destiny provides answers for public policy.

Its purpose, like that of Gross and Levitt's earlier book, Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science, is to counter the trend towards unreason represented by such movements as social constructivism, feminist epistemology, eco-feminism, radical environmental philosophy, deconstructionism, and afrocentrism.

But where creation presents a unified theme returning, finally, to reason, atheistic scientism must insist that at bottom it is only unreason.

When human reason denies its basis in creation, it becomes unreason.

A fiscal conservative and socially moderate Republican party, not one that caves in to the voices of unreason from the religious right, is the the only viable one for the future.

Agnosticism, however, does not seem capable of opposing such belligerent unreason.

But faith can be made to betray all truth in unreason Just as love can be made sordid and sentimental without the restraint of observing law» (FC 122).

How does this counterbalance of reason and unreason characterize their relationship?

It is all part of Mosley's world of gleeful unreason.

When the forces of unreason win, and force exceptional scientists like Professor Phil Jones to leave their positions, we all lose.

These forces of unreason seek to establish the scientific equivalent of what were once called «no - go» areas in Northern Ireland.

We may have to accept Fairfax as the voice of unreason on climate change because of their left wing bias, with the Murdoch stable the ultimate winners.

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation invited him to deliver the distinguished Massey Lectures, which have now appeared in a little book, On the Eve of the Millennium: The Future of Democracy Through an Age of Unreason (Free Press).

His other books included a volume of novellas, «The River Swimmer»; the poetry collections «Songs of Unreason» and «Returning to Earth»; and a memoir about food, «The Raw and the Cooked: Adventures of a Roving Gourmand.»

[T] he voice of reason is not as loud as the voice of unreason.

Creative Reason, the Creator Spirit who makes all things and gives them growth, or Unreason, which, lacking any meaning, strangely enough brings forth a mathematically ordered cosmos, as well as man and his reason.

That you presume to know that which you can not know betrays your unreason.

The liberal and communist polities are both perpetually poised in the now and not - yet, between the emergence from the dim night of unreason and the final triumph.

Voice of unreason — your rejection of God and your hatred of Him reveal that you live in the darkness and have accepted it.

A stronger objection, which comes to mind reading this stanza, is that Cummings is offering mere hedonism and unreason.

We are going to the river, whatever the reason or unreason that moves us; we are going to wade right in.

Sometimes the progress of reason is more easily measured by the discernment of unreason and by the struggle that it is destined to undergo in order to prevent the fruitless death of its possibilities.

Voice of unreason — the 144,000 are the elect.

Their worship creatively united order and disorder, reason and unreason.

Voice of unreason, the proof is, you atheists never grew spiritually.

It stems not from a positive presence but from an absence, not a reason but a form of unreason: a failure, a lack,....

I want to apply the lessons I've learnt in victory and defeat to the urgent challenge of this Age of Unreason.»

Arabella Pike, publishing director of William Collins, said: «It is a book to address the biggest issues of our age - The Age of Unreason - and sets out plans to give more people capital in capitalism, control over their work, their communities and their money.

The former chancellor is to write a book titled The Age of Unreason, examining the rise of populist nationalism and prejudice.

He is the co-author of the Demos publications #Intelligence (2012), Truth, Lies and the Internet (2011), and The Power of Unreason (2010).

In a world of unreason and the distortion of facts through social media it is a relief to turn to books.

I disagree with his assertion that religion is a «medieval form of unreason».

By October 2016, he was writing a book called Age of Unreason; it is a diatribe against «populist nationalism».

But there is also the ignorance of Socrates, which is a different sort of ignorance altogether, the sort which refuses to allow a Roman orgy of nonsense and unreason, of illogic illogically arrived at and fatuously hyped, an ignorance which demands from us modesty, rational thought and gentle restraint.

These «forces of unreason» seek to constrain our ability to speak truth to power.